The awkward age: a novel

';They've chosen the one thing that will make our family life impossible.

It's genius really, when you think about it. It's the perfect sabotage.' ';Francesca Segal is precise and funny, and The Awkward Age is brimming with keen observations of the highest orderthe clever, the sore, and the sublime.' Emma Straub, New York Times-bestselling author of Modern Lovers and The VacationersJulia Alden has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love.

American obstetrician James is everything she didn't know she wanted--if only her teenage daughter, Gwen, didn't hate him so much.

Uniting two households is never easy, but when Gwen turns for comfort to James's seventeen-year-old son, Nathan, the consequences will test her mother's loyalty and threaten all their fragile new happiness.This is a moving and powerful novel about the modern family: about starting over; about love, guilt, and generosity; about building something beautiful amid the mess and complexity of what came before.

It is a story about standing by the ones we love, even while they make mistakes.

We would give anything to make our children happy. But how much should they ask?